Description
After two decades in Montréal and Miami, Vieux Os returns to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, carrying both the hope of homecoming and the awkwardness of being out of step with the life he left behind. Framed as a comic, self-aware journey—an excuse, he insists, to “practice” his French—the novel unfolds as a vivid encounter with a country where the past is never truly past and where death hovers close, even in everyday moments. With sharp humor and a storyteller’s ear, Dany Laferrière turns exile and reintegration into a meditation on language, identity, and the strange intimacy of returning. Part travelogue, part cultural portrait, Pays sans chapeau blends laughter with melancholy to explore what it means to come back to a place that has changed—and to a self that has, too.
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paperback
ZULMA
Published Aug 23, 2018
288 pages
ISBN: 9782843048296
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First Published
1996
Language
fra
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